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White Ferns captain Tiffen talks up her pace bowlers before the game claiming the North Sydney oval suits them.... and it does. Strike bowlers Devine and Browne (points off for jokes involving gormless British actors) have taken critical wickets including Mithali Raj who came into this game with an average of 89.

The Ferns are on top at the moment, after 33 overs, the Indians are scoring at a little more than threes and have lost five wickets.

I know Hayden is a self-proclaimed cricket nOOb and that Emma's an officiando... but, I think, Emma counselled me to send my random obsessive comments about the comp here... I figure Jack's making a slightly different point anyhow...

Am I the only one slightly surprised that this line wasn't in a thread from one of Emma's posts?

If we must have some recurrent theme that metastases throughout PAS, I'd much rather it was Carry On sexual puns than copyright/wrong.

It's things like these that make me pretty sure Russell is an evil genius, sitting out on the deck of his secret lair stroking Colin and laughing maniacally. Because when people said 'we need more women writing for Public Address' I'm pretty sure the reasoning wasn't 'because otherwise we'll run out of smut'.

Also India recovered quite nicely and are all out for 207 in the 50th. I say you add a run to the required run rate in Women's to get an idea of what the total is like, which makes that 'challenging but well gettable'. IMO.

when people said 'we need more women writing for Public Address' I'm pretty sure the reasoning wasn't 'because otherwise we'll run out of smut'.

Hooray for unintended consequences? I hardly need prompting to descend into smut anyhow, and hope it doesn't impede people seriously engaging with a topic should I choose to muck around in the background (as robbery can perhaps attest). And it's nice to be unserious sometimes when the standard of debate here is really forbiddingly high.